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moreover, much too sharp as traders for the Irnboshwa, 

 cheating them unmercifully, and lying- like Greeks. Kom- 

 bokonibo's stockade was on the Chiberase Biver, which flows 

 briskly, eight yards broad and deep, through a mile of 

 sponge. We came in the midst of a general jollification, 

 and were most bountifully supplied with pombe and food. 

 The Banyamwezi acknowledge allegiance to the Sultan 

 of Zanzibar, and all connected with him are respected. 

 Kombokombo pressed food and drink on me, and when I 

 told him that I had nothing to return for it, he said that 

 he expected nothing: he was a child of the Sultan, and 

 ought to furnish all I needed. 



11th July. — On leaving the Chiberase we passed up 

 over a long line of hills with many villages and gardens, 

 but mostly deserted during the Mazitu raid. The people 

 fled into the forests on the hills, and were an easy prey to 

 the marauders, who seem to have been unmerciful. When 

 we descended into the valley beyond we came to a strong 

 stockade, which had successfully resisted the onset of the 

 Mazitu; we then entered on flat forest, with here and 

 there sponges containing plenty of water ; plains succeeded 

 the hills, and continued all the way to Bangweolo. We 

 made a fence in the forest ; and next day .(12th July) 

 reached the Bofuba, 50 yards broad and 4^ feet deep, full 

 of aquatic plants, and flowing south-west into the Luongo : 

 it had about a mile and a half of sponge on each side of it. 

 We encamped a little south of the river. 



l?>th July. — On resting at a deserted spot, the men of a 

 village in the vicinity came to us excited and apparently 

 <lrunk, and began to work themselves up still more by 

 running about, poising their spears at us, taking aim with 

 their bows and arrows, and making as if about to strike 

 with their axes : they thought that we were marauders, 

 and some plants of ground-nuts strewn about gave colour to 

 *he idea. There is usually one good soul in such rabbles. 



